OK Iâ€™ve searched and searched all about DMA and burning problems but Iâ€™m still concerned that my SATA hardrive has slowed down after I fixed the burning problem I had. My DVD/RW died, it was my first one, 6yrs old, Pioneer that didnâ€™t impress me much as I didnâ€™t even burn with it much so I purchased a new ASUSDRW-2014L1 drive with Nero 7 and installed it. Then I had a problem with burning an audio CD and after a quick search I saw all about DMA issues. DMA was not enabled on the new DVD/RW drive so I changed it in Device Manager and it now says UDMA 4 but no luck, still wouldnâ€™t burn, so I completely uninstalled Nero with the CleanTool and reinstalled it and problem solved. BUT now my SATA drive seams to have slowed down, especially when you select any sort of media file, not documents. Just highlighting a selection of files causes the CPU to max 100% in Task Manager (it drops right back down again) and the mouse cursor gets all jerky?I have 3 HDDâ€™s 2 raptors in RAID with OS installed and one Seagate SATA (which I've been burning audio files from) plugged into my Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboards SATA ports. Nero log files say that the DVD/RW is DMA=On but HDDâ€™s =Off. Is this just a coincidence or what?OS is Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 with ALL updates installed and .NET framework packs etc. AVG Antivirus and Sysclean tool report no virus. I donâ€™t burn much audio but the occasional TV program to DVD but I do copy DVDâ€™s to HDD for viewing in MCE.Also after looking at many other peoples posted log files I too donâ€™t have the Nero ASPI file path listing at the top, not sure what thatâ€™s all about.Your help would be much appreciated thanks.Cheers,Simon.

This is the extra drive I’ve got plugged into SATA port4 that I’m burning the audio files (mp3) from but my system drives are two Raptors in Nvidia RAID, HD Tune doesn’t show the DMA and thereâ€™s 25 GB space free.

Would you believe it I tried to burn an audio CD today and Nero didn’t finish. “Could Not Perform End Of disk-at-once”! and I thought I’d fixed this problem. I haven’t changed any Nero Options but to burn at 8x which is the slowest it will show and finalize and verify disk. I’m burning 77mins though on an 80min disk which I usually do with no problems in the past. I’m using Imation CD-R “Music” 80min CD’s.

To cut this thing short … here’s the first part of the Nero log …
Windows XP 5.1
IA32
WinAspi: -

Like I said in my original post after searching and looking at other peopleâ€™s logs whatâ€™s this ASPI business? Some people have the path to Nero at the top of the log file and some don’t, like me. Is it the version of Nero you use…?

[QUOTE=MysticEyes;2232146]The normal advice would be to try different media. Your partial log doesn’t list what you used. If it showed CMC or Ritek you’d get the usual ‘use Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden’.[/QUOTE]
I’m using Imation CD-R “Music” 80min CD’s arenâ€™t these supposed to be on par with Verbatim? The first thing I did was change from using TDK. Iâ€™ve used Nero InfoTool4 to read the Imation disk and it says the manufacturer ID is CMC Magnetics. I also have Sony SUPREMAS Technology CD-R 700MB 48x and NeroInfoTool4 says manufacturer ID is Sony. I also have [B]Verbatim[/B] CD-R 700MB 52x 80min and NeroInfoTool4 says manufacturer ID is CMC Magnetics! Iâ€™ve tried them all with the same result!

[QUOTE=MysticEyes;2232146]Although I have a SATA system I’ve chosen to run my rig in IDE mode. Makes life a bit easier as I have no need for RAID or AHCI and everything is shown in ways I’m familiar with.[/QUOTE]
Iâ€™d prefer to try other things before reverting to Windows drivers instead of Nvidiaâ€™s so Iâ€™ve updated to the latest Nvidia drivers, downloaded from there website version â€œ15.23_nforce_winxp32_international_whqlâ€ and the listings has changed a little in Device Manager. i.e. under Disk Drives they are now listed as â€œSCSI Disk Deviceâ€ instead of just the model number and under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers it now says â€œDMA Modeâ€ instead of â€œ1.5G Sata 1â€
Another change that has happened is that on the notification on the task bar when I click on the â€œSafely Remove Hardwareâ€ icon is no longer shows the sata drives.

I tried the exact same audio compilation and Nero didnâ€™t stop with â€œCould Not Perform End Of Disk-at-Onceâ€ error but instead it said â€œBurn Completed Successfully at 8xâ€ and then verification failed and the disk is unplayable.

After reading more threads I found people with Nvidia chipsets have removed the SM Bus driver and had results. So I tried this leaving a yellow explanation mark in Device Manager but it didnâ€™t make any difference either.
I found a new firmware update for my Asus drive, from ver1.00 to ver1.01 but this didnâ€™t make any difference either.

[QUOTE=MysticEyes;2232146]You’ll note that I use Nero Version: 7.10.1.2 which has been reported to be the most stable version. Seeing as I have no problems I see no reason to update.[/QUOTE]
Do you really think that I should revert to this version instead? I have no idea how I would from Nero’s website anyway?

Iâ€™ve been having trouble trying to revert to the Microsoft drivers as Windows will automatically reinstall them at boot up? And don’t forget my OS is installed on Nvidia RAID0.
My Leadtek Geforce 6800 Ultra graphics card driver is rather old. Would this have anything to do with it?
And I still feel that the SATA drive is slow or slower than before I installed the new Asus drive and Nero7.
BTW I can burn DVDâ€™s at 4x (Iâ€™ve always used this speed) with NeroVision no problems at all. Good quality too.

Just for the fun of it I installed Nero7 on my motherâ€™s old Compaq Laptop, an Intel 1Gig CPU, 256MB Ram and IDE drive and it burned at 8x successfully with the Imation CD-R â€œMusicâ€ 80min CD and noticeably the verification was reading 4-5 times faster and completed successfully too!

Once again any help from where to go from here would be much appreciated thanks.
Regards,
Simon.

[QUOTE=THE C.;2235119]Are firmware of the drives up to date? Good Luck[/QUOTE]Well Yes for the Asus DVD/RW drive but do you mean the seagate sata HDD? If so I didn’t know you could update them.
Cheers,
Simon.

[QUOTE=echidna_nz;2235639]Why?
Well Yes for the Asus DVD/RW drive but do you mean the seagate sata HDD? If so I didn’t know you could update them.
Cheers,
Simon.[/QUOTE]

JMO Roxio has better performance over Nero. Don’t get me wrong I still have Nero 6 Ultimate on one of my machines and to me that was the last really good thing from Nero. As for firmware, its always good to check when problem solving. I am glad you researched Seagate’s website. I hope you the best.